Category: Music Production
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Inside the Layers of a Modern Pop Song
A modern pop song can sound remarkably simple from the outside. There is a lead vocal, a beat, some chords, a bass line, and perhaps a few sounds…
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How Producers Make a Final Chorus Feel Huge
A final chorus can use the same chords, melody, lyrics, and tempo as the first chorus and somehow feel twice as large. That difference rarely comes from one…
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How a Song Goes From an Idea to a Finished Master
A finished song is remarkably good at hiding its own history. By the time the master plays, the chorus sounds inevitable. The vocal seems attached to the track…